While scientists are revising the timeline at Australia's North Pole Dome, it's still our oldest known crater.

Geologists studying some of the planet's oldest volcanic rocks have uncovered new evidence that water was playing a major ...

Water may have been shaping Earth’s deep interior far earlier than many geologists thought. In rocks more than 3 billion years old from Western Australia, a research team found chemical signs that ...

Researchers studying ancient rocks from Western Australia's Pilbara Craton found evidence that water was moving deep into ...

In the 45°C heat of the midday April sun, I swing my sledgehammer into the terracotta-varnished lobes of pillow basalt ...

Water began to form the internal structure of the Earth and influence volcanic activity more than 3 billion years ago. This ...

In the Pilbara of Western Australia, some of Earth’s oldest rocks lie beneath the sky, as they have for billions of years. They are dark, weathered volcanic rocks, close to 3.5 billion years old, cut ...

An international team of researchers' analysis of minerals from the Pilbara region of Western Australia has given new insight into how ancient continents on Earth formed as far back as 3.5 billion ...

Moon impact 3.5 billion years ago reveals hidden Solar System history through tiny mineral grains. The discovery shows asteroid bombardment continued long after the Late Heavy Bombardment period.

Geologists studying some of the planet’s oldest volcanic rocks have uncovered new evidence that water was playing a major ...

Major clues to the origins of our planet—and life itself—are locked inside some three billion-year-old volcanic rocks from ...